Selenium
The Element Selenium
Abdomen
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Chronic liver affections; liver painful, enlarged, with ' fine rash over liver region. Stool constipated, hard and accumulated in
William Boericke 1922
Sleepless until midnight, awakens early and always same hour.
Compare
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Agnus; Calad,; Sulphur; Tellur,; Phosph, acid. Antidotes: Ign.; Puls.
Dose
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Sixth to thirtieth potency. Colloidal Selenium injection for inoperable cancer.
Extremities
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Paralytic pains in small of back in the morning. Tearing pain in hands, at night.
Guiding symptoms
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Selenium is a constant constituent of bones and
Head
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Hair falls out. Pain over left eye; worse, walking in sun, strong odors and tea. Scalp feels tense. Headache from tea drinking.
Male
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Dribbling of semen during
Mind
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Lascivious thoughts, with impotency. Mental labor fatigues. Extreme sadness. Abject despair, uncompromising melancholy.
Modalities
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Worse, after sleep, in hot weather, from Cinchona, draught of air, coition. 672 SELENIUM — SEMTERVIVUM TECl*. — SENECIO AUREUS
Relationships
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Incompatible : China; Wine,
Skin
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alopecia. Acne.
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Dry, seal}' eruption in palms, with itching. Itching about the ankles and folds of skin, between fingers. Hair falls out from brows, beard, and genitals. Itching about finger-joints and between fingers; in palms. Vesicular eruption between fingers. [Rhus; Anac.] Seborrheea oleosa; comedones zvith an oily surface of the
Sleep
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Sleep prevented by pulsation in all vessels, worse
William Boericke 1922
Dribbling of prostatic fluid. Irritability after coitus. Loss of sexual power, with lascivious fancies. Increases desire, decreases ability. Semen thin, odorless. Sexual neurasthenia. On attempting coition, penis relaxes. Hydrocele.
Stomach
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Desire for brandy and other strong drink. Sw^eetish taste. Hiccough and eructations after smoking. After eating, pulsation all over, especially al)domen.
Teeth
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Marked effects on the genito-urinary organs, and often indicated in elderly men, especially for prostatitis and sexual atony. Great debility; worse, heat. Easy exhaustion, mental and physical, in old age. Debility after exhausting diseases.
Throat
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Incipient tubercular laryngitis. Hawking and raising transparent lumps of mucus every morning. Hoarseness. Cough in morning, with expectoration of bloody mucus. Hoarseness of singers. Much clear, starchy mucus.
Urinary
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Sensation in the tip of urethra as if a biting drop were forcing its way out. Involuntary dribbling.
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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Reminder: this information is published for qualified practitioners. Patients must not self-medicate — homeopathic prescribing depends on the complete individual symptom picture, which only a doctor can evaluate. Please visit a homeopathy doctor.